The treatment of maternal attitudes in problems of guidance.

Moore, Madeline

doi:10.1111/j.1939-0025.1933.tb06241.x

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“…In addition to overprotection and rejection, attention was directed to several other “attitudinal excesses” in parents, including anxiety, authority, indulgence, perfectionism, permissiveness, responsibility, solicitude, and strictness (Bakwin & Bakwin, 1940; Jackson, Klatskin, & Wilkin, 1952; Sewall, 1930; Symonds, 1949). One result of this work was a therapeutic focus on maternal attitudes (Moore, 1933; Rogers, 1939) and the development of “attitude therapy” designed specifically to modify parental attitudes (Bronner, 1936; Garrett, 1936). The child guidance clinics begun in the 1920s also focused treatment on the parent–child relationship to deal with child maladjustment in the home and school (Watson, 1953).…”

Section: Origins Of Interest In Parental Attitudesmentioning

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Parental attitudes toward child rearing: Instruments, issues, and implications.

Holden¹,

Edwards²

1989

Psychological Bulletin

348

226

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Describes historical use of surveys to assess parents' global child-rearing attitudes and reviews the structure and content of the 83 parent attitude questionnaires published from 1899 through 1986 designed to quantify variations in parental attitudes and, presumably, parental behavior. Inspection of the surveys' psychometric properties reveals marginally acceptable levels of reliability and questionable validity. One suspected source of problems with the instruments, the use of vague and ambiguous items, was confirmed in a study of mothers' reactions to one survey. In addition to instrument errors, conceptual problems associated with assumptions about the structure of parental attitudes and how attitudes relate to parental behavior are discussed. Alternative methods for assessing parental social cognitions and individual differences in parents are advocated.

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Section: Origins Of Interest In Parental Attitudesmentioning

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Parental attitudes toward child rearing: Instruments, issues, and implications.

Holden¹,

Edwards²

1989

Psychological Bulletin

348

226

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“…Originally it was to be used with parents when case work methods failed (23). It also bore the imprint of that earlier more prevalent pedagogical influence (28). It now has been changed somewhat in all of these respects.…”

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Indirect Methods of Treatment.

Watson

The Clinical Method in Psychology.

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Indirect Methods of Treatment 1 laiajSfSEfinjsjsiajsfiiysiGUSÎ n previous chapters concerned with treatment, emphasis was placed upon the therapeutic effects arising from the direct interpersonal relationship of patient and therapist. Although the environment in which the patient moved was not entirely neglected, his direct relationship with the therapist was conspicuously in the foreground. Events occurring outside the therapist's office were seen only in relation to therapeutic sessions. And yet, one of the goals of therapy is the preparation of the patient for the time when the outside world is the only reality and the therapist's office but a remote past aspect of that reality. Even during the therapeutic sessions the patient lived and moved and had his being in this world. The environment was the soil from which came the experiences and behavior with which both patient and therapist were working; it was also a present reality modifying the therapeutic sessions. Human activities, no matter what the particular area under consideration, are furthered or hindered by situational opportunities or ob-x The use of indirect methods of treatment is especially well developed in social work agencies. The account in this chapter does not do justice to the complexity, adroitness, and clinical acumen displayed by social workers in using these approaches, since many of their applications are not directly related to the theme of our presentation. For example, children's protective societies, children's homes (orphanages), and foster home care agencies very commonly use indirect methods, but in a setting somewhat removed from the province of the psychologist.

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